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THE CONTINENT AT LARGE.

Four British seslers were seized by the
American cruisers in the Behring Sea They
were well-loaded with skins, which, with the
craft, were turned over to the United States
Marshal at Sitka
FAST express train on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad was wrecked in Washingto ton
City, the air-brakes refusing to work when an
effort was made to stop the train, which
jumped from the track and plunged into the
signal tower. The engineer was killed and a
number of persons were injured, some
fatally.
RICHARD SEAMAN SCOTT, who in June. 1885,
absconded with $4,000 belonging to the
Manhattan Bank of New York, has been heard
from. He confessed his guilt before United
States Consul General Waller, at London, and
implicated John r. Dunn, who has been ar
rested. Suit has been commenced against tho
latter for $4,000
II. G. Dun & Co. g weekly trade review has
the following points:
Everything now turns ON crop prospects.
Considerable injury is no longer dis puted-in-
deed, its effects are already felt in diminishing
demand from regions most affected by the
drouth for some manufactured products. But
estimates of the extent OF harm done differ
widely. Chicago and Detroit advices indicate
that rains were too late to save a considerable
portion OF the corn crop. While the rail-
roads continue TO report large earnings
Jos roads showing net gain OF ~ per
cent for July over last year, the weakness in
securities operates TO prevent sales for extern
sions and new roads, and thus affects the de-
mand for rails and iron. The monetary
situation has one unfavorable and sev-
eral favorable features. Strngenoy IN
creases at several interior points, and
reports of unsatisfactory only fair"
collections grow more numerous. But the pur-
chase of bonds by the Treasury, the shipments
of gold from EUROPE, and the sales Of securi-
ties abroad by Mr. Gould and by some German
houses here appear u avert pressure in this
market for the present. The business failures
occurring throughout the country during the
last seven days number for the United States
l3j and for Canada twenty
The City of Montreal, an Inman Line
steamer, burned to the waters edge when 400
miles of the Newfoundland coast The pas
sengers and crew, numbering over 400, took
TO the boats, which were all picked up save
one containing thirteen persons by the steamer
York City, which landed them at Queens
town. 1t is supposed that all on board the
missing boat persisted
The American Bar Association held It's
tenth annual session at Saratoga, n. Y. Mr..
George c. Wright, of Iowa, was elected Presi-
dent
THE Bank of London, Canada, has failed.
1t had a subscribed capital Of 81, coo, 600, of
which s223, 5SS was paid up. The bondhold-
ers will not lose heavily. The President of
the bank, Henry Taylor, who had become in
volved 10y the collapse of other business en-
terprises in which he was interested, has left
the city, and it is rumored that he took s25,-
600 Of the banks funds with him.
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them In spirit alike generous and wise the
conduct OF Irish affairs IL 10 To be lamentsd
that years OF the precious legislative life OF the
country should have been spent in a contro-
versy which can only end in one way. But,
while IL is important that the nations tudg-
ment be speedy II Is more important that when
IL does come IL shall be unedhivocal and de-
cisive.
The royal Afghanistan treatment of ineffi
cient physicians is described in cable dis
patch:
The Ameer, when n country excursion,
was afflicted with a boil on his arm. from which
he suffered much pain. Oh returnin; u Cabul
the principal court phi, scion was summoned,
and he applied ointment which was, no
doubt. intended To be highly efficacious in its
ultimate results, but at first IL considerably
agra waited the Ameers anguish. and, having
passed n sleepless night, he ordered the in stant
execution of his medical adviser who accord
ingly was forthwith beheaded in the courtyard
OF the palace.
The British Cabinet has decided to con-
woke Parliament for an autumn session.
SEPT % aud Oct s Bismarck will DELE
brate the twenty-fifth anniversary Of his as
sumption Of the offices of Prussian Foreign
Minister and Prime Minister, respectively
LORD SALISBURY announced in the House Of
Lords Friday afternoon that the Government
had proclaimed the Irish National League,
says London dispatch The announcement
was expected to create sensation among the
Gladstonean and Parnellite members, but
such was not the case. The Parnell-
ties were prepared for it, and many Of
them unhesitatingly declared that the cause
of home rule could not have been more
benefited by any action the Government
could have decided upon than by the adoption
OF the short-sighted policy it has chosen The
proclamation, they argue, cannot do much
harm TO the League, since the methods Of that
organization enable it to conduct its business
with secrecy, and at tho same time, with no
decrease Of effect, while the influence Of the
governments coercive action upon the
English electorate must result dsastrously TO
the Conservative party. In short great many
members believe that in taking steps to sup
press the League the Tory party has commit
ted political suicide
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the Smithsonian Institution. Besides his other
labors he has translated and edited the SIcon-
ogrsphic Encyclopedias" and published re-
ports on the collections in natural history
made by Stansbury. Giliss, Marcy and others
He also published in conjunction with j. Cas-
sin @The Birds Of North America" and @The
Mammals Of North America"
The inquest on the body of the Baltimore
and Ohio engineer killed in the accident at
Washington resulted in a verdict censuring
the company for running its trains into the
city at dangerous rate of speed All the in
jured will recover.
ALVIN CLARK, who had q worldwide repu-
tatfon as a practical astronomer and manu-
facturer of telescopes, and who has been a
resident of Cambridge, Mass, for the past
fifty-two years, died at that place Friday, 10th
inst, aged So years and 6 months Through
his efforts he has given TO the world the larg-
est and most powerful astronomical instru-
ments ever made.
The North German Lloyd steamer Trane,
from Bremen, crashed into the pier at Hobo
ken. ~ j., and part of shed fell upon the
passengers who were crowding her decks.
Some OF them were fatally and very many
seriously injured.
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THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

A WASHINGTON dispatch says 1the railroad
indemnity lands have been restored TO the
public domain. The step foreshadowed by
the letter of the President last April to the
Secretary Of the Interior in the Guilford
Miller case has been taken The Secretary
overrules all the special pleas made by the
railroad companies and throws these lands
open to settlers, from whom they have
been withheld without warrant OF law
indeed, in violation OF law-for periods vary
ing from eight to ten up TO twenty-five or
thirty years The General Land Office esti-
mates that there have been withdrawn as in
demnity lands in the interest OF railroads
80. So, 600 acres, an area very nearly the size
apart from the public domain under these
Withdrawals about ~, 0O0, 00J acres, or rather
more land than there is in ,hc State OF In
diana This, be it remembered, is entirely
aside from the mighty empire that has been
given outright to the railroad companies.
The opinions of Secretary Lamar give effect
to the maxim of the Supreme Court that land
grants shall be construed strictly as against
the grantee, and that nothing passes by them
except just what Congress expressly or by
necessary implication gives to the corpora
tons. They affirm that the Department of
the Interior is quite as much bound to con-
slider the welfare of the people as the welfare
of the railroad companies
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND will 60 direct to st
Louis without a break, and hes arranged the
time Of his departure so that he will arrive in
that city Yelled Prophets day He will then
go direct to Chicago, where he will arrive Oct
8. So says Washington telegram
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Prospective Lawsuits.

The pecuniary loss arising from the
Chatsworth accident is simply enormous.
Under the laws of Illinois the rela-
tives of those killed in the dis
aster will, if they have any claim at all,
deplete the treasury of the Toledo,
Peoria and Warsaw of something like
$3.50, 900, and those injured would receive
at least $3.50, 900 more. 1t might he Just as
well, at this juncture, TO recite some of the
vicissitudes of the road as illustrating
its condition. In 1880 it was leased
to the Wabash, and when that road drifted
into the hands of receiver, the trustees
for the holders of the first mortgage bonds
of the Toledo, Peoria and " arsaw took
possession of the road. Proceedings to
foreclose this particular mortgage were
had, and in October, 1886, the road was
brought TO SAKE. II was bought III for the
benefit Of the holders of the first
mortgage bonds. new company was
organized, which took possession July i,
1887. The name of the road was for some
reason or other changed from the To-
ledo, Peoria and Warsaw Railroad Com
pany TO the Toledo. Peoria and Western
Railway Company. The new corporation
is realizing from $4,000 TO Sl5,OOO per
month en- the road. Should the corpora
ton be held guilty of negligence, and
therefore at fault for the accident. the gen.
tlemen who only six weeks ago bought in
the property TO save themselves will be
confronted with claims aggregating little
less than a million Of dollars. This, of
course, simply means bo. kruptcy.
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THE FOREIGN BUDGET.

Two DYNAMITE cartridges were explode on
the West Clare Railroad bridge at Ennis, Ire
land, Tuesday, but no serious damage was
done. Two other cartridges which had failed
TO explode were found
A HURRICANE swept over bordeaux, France,
running crops and killing many sheep. Two
excursion trains collided in tho storm and
seventeen persons we're injured
A CABLE dispatch from Tirnova says: M
Vulkovtch telegraphs 70 the Government
from Coustautinople that the Sultan recog-
MICS Prince Ferdinands election, but that as
the Prince did not first obtain the Sultan's
consent the latter will maintain his present
attitude for a certain period The garri-
son gave banquet yesterday in honor
of Prince Ferdinand. In reply 10 a
toast the Prince expressed his devotion TO
Bulgaria, and promised that he would pre-
serve intact every thing with which the name
of Prince Alexander was contested, in view
of Bulgarias love for its late ruler Prince
Ferdinand afterward reviewed the troops
The Porte has sent circular TO the Powers
asking their advice as TO the course 10 be
taken by Turkey toward Bulgaria in view Of
Prince Ferdinand's action.
A CABLE dispatch says Mr.. Gladstone has
written letter TO Mr.. drummer, the successful
candidate for Parliament in the Northwich
elections in which the ex-Premier says:
Few will seek 10 disguise the unquestionable
addition thus made to the evidence, now rap
idly approaching n demonstrative character,
that the people OF England intend TO do full ips-
tice to the people Of Ireland by conhding to
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HISTORICAL.

The power loom was invented by the
Rev. DR.. Cartwright in 1857.
GALES, who almost perfected medi-
C ne as we now have it, was a native
Pergamus, and died about 200 A. ID.
CAIRO in Egypt was founded in S73
by the first of the Fat IN to caliphs.
Saladin surrounded it with strong
walls aud magnificent gates.
The celebrated porcela pagoda, or
Temple of Graf tude, at Marking.
China, was begun il 1903 and finished
in 1882. 1t cost 2, 4S5, Asa ounces Of
silver.
SIX THOUSAND houses were thrown
down, 20, 900 inhabitants k lied. and q
confagration k ndled, which spread
still wider destruction, 10y the terrible
earthquake in Lisbon in 1855.
QUARANTINE, a place for The deten-
tion of infected individuals or vessels,
and the practice of thus taking steps
for averting the introductio and
spread of contagion, originated with,
the Venetians in l743.
MARTIN BEHEM is cred ted with hav-
ing discovered America prior to Column
bus. In first voyage of discovery In
AGO, he visited Fayal and the Azores,
and afterward visited Brazil. sailing
as far north as the Straits of Magellan
in 1884, six years before Columbus set
sail for the West.
PREVIOUS to the printing of newspa-
pers, London had its letter writers,
who sent written news for a subscrip-
ton of f3 or "a. L'Estranges hatelLi-
gencer, the first London paper, COM
menced to be issued once week in
1868, and in 1865 the Loadon Gazette,
a semi-weekly, made its first appear
ance.
In 1915 and 1878, nearly all the sheep
in France persisted by disease rese4-
bling the smallpox, and in 1899 I De
Venetian Government, to stop fatal
disease among the people, prohibited
the sale of meat, butter or cheese upon
pain of death, as the disease was
known to have been communicated by
these animal products.
HARoUN AL RAsCHID, in SOP, sent to
Charlemagne, among other presents
from Bagdad, clock of curious work
manship. The first clock with pal
ance was made by De Wick in 1864, and
the first with pendulum in l641.
Watches with springs were first made
at Nuremberg, about 1t77, but the first
successful application OF spring to
watches was by DR.. Hooke. in 1868.
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.IananpSn Music.

The character of any nation finds
peculiar and corresponding expression
in its music. Eminently true is this
of the courteous, refined, beauty-lov-
ing japanese, regarding whom all trav.
elers unite in singing praise. Gay IN
temperament, and having peculiarN
aptitude for combining the comic and
the serious side of things, their pleas.
ing songs and skillful manipulation~N
stringed instruments are instinct with
dainty, quaint, and agreeable effects.
In Japan dancing especia ly reserved
for religious festivals. The movements
are rather a succession of postures and
posings than the dance as we uade.-
stand it. Other dances, however, are
executed to the accompaniment of
songs, and professional musicians and
singers perform q number of graceful
dances, the most original of which is
the chiri-fouri, the classical dance of
Japan. The japanese have IN all,
twenty-one musical instruments. These
may be divided into stringed, wind,
and percussion instruments. The great
favorite, however, is the guitar, or
sam-sin, with three str ngs, which -
manipulated with piece If ivory the
shape of which resembles an axe. 1t
is true that japanese music cannot be
compared with our own, but apps have
an exceptionally correct ear, and sing
and play in perfect unison, observing
with great accuracy the peculiar and
frequently very difficult rhythm of their
melodies
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DercAnt-
Flashes by the Cable.

THE Tory press of England and Ireland is
unanimous in it's approval Of the proclama-
ton Of the National League.
EMPEROR WILLIAM is recovering from his
rheumatic attack. Dr. Mackenzie predicts the
complete recovery of the Crown Prince, al
though he says the curative process will be
tedious
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN made a peculiar
speech at Birmingham, from which il APP
pears that although he was in favor of the
crimes act he did not want 10 see it enforced
and that while lac is greved az the action OF
the Government in procaiming the League
he cannot find il in his heart to crtIcise il
harshly. Mr. Chamberlain wanted it I'M
derstool that he was still a Unionist, al
though he spoke very tenderly OF Mr. Glad
stone, in whom, lie SAID, the country had
never lost faith.
DISPATCHES from Constantinople announce
that the Car has proposed to the Sultan
joint occupation Of Eastern Roumelia and
Bulgaria. Turkey is in no hurry to assent to
the proposition. Prince Fer linand was re-
ceivcd with much enthusiasm at Philippopo-
lis but none of the foreign Consuls have yet
vsited the Prince, AMI Germany has instruct
el her Consul not 70 consider himself attached
- the Bulgarian Government Consequently
the German flag has been lowered from over the
consulate. II is reported that the powers have
expressed disapproval at Prince Ferdinand's
irregular action in taking possession Of the
Bulgarian throne. The Bulgarian Govern
ment has ordered 20c OO0 repeating rifles from
an Austrian firm
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A Wise Wasp.

While sitting, one summer dav, at
the side of the house on platform
which served as piazza, but was
rooted only by the branches of two
large trees, something dropped upon
my head and rolled into my lap, when
l saw large white-bodied spider in the
clutches of a small wasp. Hastily
brushing these unceremonious visitors
onto the floor, l watched to see if the
wasp would succeed in flying away
with his huge enemy. After struggle
the spider lay quiet, and the wasp ran
around, Selling first one part, then an
other, but finally went away, as l sup
posed, for help. In about quarter
of an hour he returned. still alone, and
began trying again, as l supposed, to
find some place by which he could
seize the round body and carry it
away. Again he departed without his
spider. This time / watched him and
saw him disappear at the edge of the
lawn, under pear tree, and, follow
ing, found him, after some search, dill
gently at work with another wasp en-
larging hole in the ground, having
already thrown out quite little
mound Oh edfUu. l. was surprised, 1Or
1 did not then know that any kind of
wasp lived in the ground.
returned to the piazza, and soon,
when the wasp came back. was con-
WINGED, aby more careful watching, that
he was measuring each part of the spi-
der's body instead of trying to get hold
of it. The antenn1 seemed to be the
organs mostly employed in this opera
ton. When he went home again, L
was before him, and saw him meet his
co-worker, put his head close to his,
and evidently inform him that the
doorway was not big enough, for they
fell busily at work charging it. Then
more measuring, more digging, until,
after three long hours, he returned,
this time tn his friend, and they car
ried away their prey and bestowed it
in their underground home.
Question for stuiious Agassizites:
How many kinds of wasps are there,
and how many have adopted the metric
system ?-The OtCI.
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THE WORLD IN A WORD.
The Latest Intelligence, Domestic and
Foreign, Transmitted Over the
Electric Wires.
Political, Railroad, and Commercial News,
Accidents, Fires, Grimes,
Etc, Etc
THE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH.
NOW IT'S A sTRAwBOARD TRUST.


The Works at Akron, Ohio, Bought Out
by the Trust Company and Closed.
A NEW YORK dispatch says the Union Straw
board Company of the United States, an or
ganization Of strawboard manufacturers who
produce about % per cent OF the product OF
the country, has just made deal which Will
result in the formation Of one Of the strongest
trusts in the land. Heretofore the pool has
marketed the product of all its members, and
its directors have from time 10 time ordered
shut-downs Of the various mills TO prevent
rapid accumulatons of surplus producf. In
spite OF this, there is still about one-third
more strawboard made than can be marketed.
1t was, therefore, decided to buy outright and
to shut down probably permanently the fol-
lowing mills for which negotiations have just
been completed, the aggregate purchase price
being 100000: Akron Strawboard Works,
Akron, Ohio; Lyons Paper Mills, Lyons, Pa,
and strawboard works at Upper Sandusky;
Tppecanoe, Ohio; Hamilton, Ohio; Kanka-
kee, IL; Wooster, Ohio; and Rockford, Ill
The members Of the syndicate argue that this
move will prevent overproduction and will
permit the running of the other seventeen
mills the year round. They argue, further,
that under tlc combinations management
strawboarl can be made cheaper than ever.
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THE CHATSWORTH HORROR.

Noble and Unselfsh Conduct of the W omen.
From the stories of eye-witnesses, the
conduct of the women IN the railway acct
dent at Chatsworth was extremely credita-
BILE. Those who died met death with
heroic bravery, and those who were for
tunate enough TO escape did SO only
after rendering those about them
all the aid possible. There are
some who are made strong by great
dangers or emergencies. The Chatsworth
women are of this sort and dozens of them
had hardly extricated themselves from the
wreck before they busted themselves car
ing for the wounded and smoothing the
pillows of the dying. The attending ply
sicians attribute the recovery of great
many of the wounded solely TO the minis
tering care Of the noble and unselfsh
women.
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THE SOUTHERN STATES.

A COLUMBIA Is c. special says: "A pecul-
far murder was committed in Lancaster
County by an s-year- old colored boy. He and
his sister and another girl about years of
age were eating watermelon. They had q
dispute, and, the boy being angry, while the
girls had their backs turned, reached down
an old double barreled gun, cooked il, and
approached them in an angry manner, say
ing he was going to kill them both He
aimed the gun at the girls, but he was
hardly able TO hold IL up, and before he
could shoot his sister caught him by the arm
and begged him not TO kill her. The little
devil finally agreed to put the gun up, but
while doing so, either by accident OF pur-
posely, he discharged the weapon, which was
heavily loaded with buckshot The charge
passed through his sisters arm and took effect
in the breast of the other girl, killing her in
stantly. This makes the third murder in
South Carolina in the past few months COM
United by children under ten years of age"
A MONTGOMERY ALA dispatch says: Sop
ular Indignation against an article in the
Herald, a weekly paper edited by q colorcd
man named Jesse Dukes. reached a climax
here yesterday. The article came cut Satur-
day, aud is "a follow:
Every day or 40 we read OF the lynching Of
some negro for assaulting some white woman
Why is IL that white women attract negro men
now more than in former days2 There was
time when such thing was unheard Of There
IL a secret TO this thing, and we greatly suspect
IL is the growing appreciation of the white
Juliet for the colored Romeo as no becomes
more and moro intelligent aud refined. IL
something is not done to break up these
iynchings il will be so that after awhile they
will lynch every colored man that looks at n
white woman with twinkle I'm his eye.
large public meeting to-day adopted res
olutions denouncing him and warning him to
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HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.
A Sketch and Portrait Of the
Authorcss of Uncle Toms
Cabin"

The famous authoress OF "Uncle Toms
Cabin" Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stove. al
though still able to 60 about her Connect
cut home and take short walks for exercise,
is failing rapidly in health and strength.
She is the daughter of Lyman Beecher, and
was Torn at Litchfeid, Connecticut, on
June 10. 1911. She was interested and as
ISOLATED with her sister Catherine in the
labor of school at Hartford in 1927,
afterwaId removing TO Walnut Hill, near
Cincinnati. She was married in 1882 TO
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keep away from Montgomery at the peril of
his life Dukes paper has been bitterly par
tisan and more than once contained articles
to which the whites seriously objected
An Atlanta dispatch says that in 1853 Clai-
borne Vaughn, prominent citizen OF Cum
ming, Ga, was murdered by five men They
were all found guilty; some we're sentenced
TO life imprisonment, others to the death pen
atty. One Jake Pettyjohn escaped and made
his way to the Indian Territory A son of
one of the prosecutors moved there month
ago, and IN one of his neighbors discovered
the murderer. Officers will take him back to
the scene Of his crime